White-tailed Tyrannulet

Mecocerculus poecilocercus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernInvertebratesForestTiny · 8 g

What the White-tailed Tyrannulet sounds like

Sonogram of the White-tailed Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Pichincha: Tandayapa ridge 3 km SSW Tandayapa, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the White-tailed Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Azuay: Arenales, right bank of Río Paute, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto
Sonogram of the White-tailed Tyrannulet: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call · Cotopaxi: Las Palmas, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The white-tailed tyrannulet is about 11 cm (4.3 in) long and weighs 10 to 11 g (0.35 to 0.39 oz). The sexes have the same plumage. Adults have a medium gray crown. They have a thin white supercilium and a faint blackish stripe through the eye on an otherwise whitish face. Their upperparts are mostly greenish olive with a bright greenish yellow rump and uppertail coverts. Their wings are dusky with pale yellow edges on the flight feathers. Their wing coverts have white to pale buff tips that show as two bars on the closed wing. Voice: The white-tailed tyrannulet's dawn song is "a high, lisping pseeee-psweet". Its day song is "a descending series of high, rising, sibilant whistles: PSEE pswee pswee psweet" that sometimes ends with "sharper pit notes".

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When to see the White-tailed Tyrannulet

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-tailed Tyrannulet

Regular range

The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the White-tailed Tyrannulet

The white-tailed tyrannulet is a species of bird in subfamily Elaeniinae of family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

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Easily confused with

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